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Independent candidate Balen Shah has been leading the vote count in Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

Out of 5, 983 votes counted so far, Shah has received 2, 238 votes.

CPN-UML candidate Keshav Sthapit has garnered 1, 319 votes.

Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Srijana Singh secured 1, 018 votes.

Meanwhile, deputy mayoral candidate Sunita Dangol obtained 2, 075 votes.

CPN (Unified Socialist) candidate from the ruling coalition Rameshwar Shrestha received 603 votes

The Election Commission said that 190, 170 voters have cast vote in the local level elections in Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

Five different agreements are to be signed between Nepal and India to deepen the century-old educational and cultural ties between the two countries.

Five Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) are expected to be signed on Monday in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba during the former's visit that begins the same day, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Indian Educational and Cultural Foundation will sign one MoU each with Lumbini Buddhist University and Tribhuvan University and three MoUs with Kathmandu University.

Lumbini Buddhist University and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Tribhuvan University Nepal and Center for Asian Studies (CNAS) and ICCR, Kathmandu University and ICCR, the KU and the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai are scheduled to sign two other MoUs.

Nepali Congress is leading the vote count in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City.

NC mayoral candidate Kishor Rai has secured 1, 489 votes.

Similarly, independent candidate Harka Sampang has received 1, 028 votes while CPN-UML candidate Manju Bhandari has got 789 votes.

Likewise, Aiendra Bikram Begha, a deputy mayoral candidate from the ruling coalition, is in the fore front with 603 votes while UML candidate Padam Limbu has garnered 134 votes.

The ruling coalition candidate is taking the lead in Pokhara Metropolitan City.

Out of 1, 200 counted so far, mayoral candidate Dhanraj Acharya of CPN (Unified Socialist) from the ruling coalition has garnered 481 votes.

CPN-UML's Krishna Bahadur Thapa has received 416 votes. 

Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Kopila Ranabhat got 546 votes for the post of deputy mayor.

CPN-UML's Manju Devi Gurung obtained 436 votes.

Ward no. 1, 2 and 12 (1, 200 votes)

Mayor

Krishna Bahadur Thapa (UML): 416

Dhan Raj Acharya (Unified Socialist): 481

Deputy Mayor

Manju Devi Gurung (UML): 436

Kopila Ranabhat (coalition): 546